Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural TlaxcalaUniversity of Arizona Press, 2019 M11 1 - 475 páginas In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."—Henry H. Selby |
Contenido
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1 An Outline of Weathermaking Nahualism and Sorcery in Rural Tlaxcala | 39 |
2 The Belief System and Structural Context of Bloodsucking Witchcraft in Rural Tlaxcala | 54 |
3 The Syncretic and Historical Development of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Mesoamerica | 80 |
4 The Comparative Distribution and Definition of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Mesoamerica | 117 |
5 Anatomy of a Bloodsucking Witchcraft Epidemic | 132 |
Methodology and Systematic Presentation | 154 |
The Logic of Witchcraft and Normative Expectations | 209 |
10 Aftereffects and the Psychological Context of the Postsucking Period | 302 |
11 The Social and Psychological Functions of Bloodsucking Witchcraft | 353 |
12 An Epistemological Approach to the Study of Magic and Religious Supernaturalism | 371 |
Conclusions | 400 |
Notes | 437 |
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About the Authors | 475 |
8 The Diagnostic and Etiological Analysis of Bloodsucking Witchcraft | 226 |
9 Social and Psychological Manipulations and the Ex Post Facto Rationalization of the Tlahuelpuchi Complex | 264 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic ... Hugo G. Nutini Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic ... Hugo G. Nutini Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
Bloodsucking Witchcraft: An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic ... Hugo G. Nutini,John M. Roberts Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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